Band 7 Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

As a clinical or counselling psychologist or psychological therapist, you will work alongside a skilled and welcoming MDT to provide individual, couple and group-based therapies to women and their families during the perinatal period. You will be invited to contribute to the delivery of training to other professionals and to be part of service development projects aimed at improving outcomes for women and their families as well as staff wellbeing.

Provide assessments of patients referred to the Perinatal Service based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources.

To provide a comprehensive psychological therapy service to patients within the perinatal service who may have a wide range of psychological needs. This will include the provision of evidence-based treatments for trauma (Trauma focussed CBT or EMDR)

To provide evidence-based interventions to women, couples and families, where appropriate, considering the specific needs of families who are pregnant or have a young baby.

Evaluate and make decisions about treatment options considering both the evidence base, theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes which have shaped the individual, family or group.

To be responsible for implementing a range of time-limited psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, grounded in the principles and techniques of a range of theoretical approaches.

Provide specialist expertise, advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to women's formulation, diagnosis and treatment plan.

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

• Post-graduate doctoral level training (or its equivalent) in Clinical Psychology OR Counselling Psychology
• Eligibility for Chartered Status by the British Psychological Society
• HCPC registered or, for those outside the UK, eligible and will be registered by the time of taking up post.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of patient groups, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
• Experience of working with people with mental health problems
• Experience of facilitating therapeutic groups
• Further training in trauma focussed interventions (CBT, EMDR or NET)
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision
• Experience of the application of clinical /counselling psychology in different cultural contexts.
• Experience of working with parent infant attachment focused interventions e.g. video interaction guidance.
• Experience of running structured psycho-educational group-based interventions

• Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology
• High level knowledge of the theory and practice of at least two specialised psychological therapies.
• Knowledge of NHS primary and secondary care structures

• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing complex, highly technical and/or clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
• Skills in the use of complex methods of psychological assessment, intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration
  
  Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, primary care and in patient settings
• Advanced keyboard skills and computer literacy

• Ability to teach and train others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within public, professional and academic settings
• Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour
• Ability to manage time effectively and meet deadlines.
• Commitment to reflecting on own performance, seeking and accepting constructive feedback and learning from own and team experiences.
• Self-motivated, able to work autonomously and independently with confidence when required.
• Exercise initiative, flexibility, tact and self-awareness.
• Willing to use peer and group supervision…